Here's what we think of McCain
Posted on 08/22/2008 5:57:19 AM PDT by Zakeet
Lee Cowan’s “infectious” feelings and Chris Matthews’ “thrill” helped NBC lead the way in positive coverage for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
But the other two major networks weren’t far behind in a study of 1,365 network news stories going back to May 17, 2000, the date of Obama’s first appearance on CBS Evening News, through early June 2008, when the Illinois senator secured the Democratic nomination.
The study was released Wednesday by the Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog and the parent organization of CNSNews.com. The study is titled, “Obama’s Margin of Victory: The Media,” pointing out that he beat his Democratic rival New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the primaries by one-tenth of one percent,
“Perhaps if he had faced serious journalistic scrutiny instead of media cheerleading, Barack Obama might still have won his party’s nomination,” the report says. “But the tremendously positive coverage that the networks bestowed upon his campaign was of incalculable value. The early celebrity coverage helped make Obama a nationally-known figure with a near-perfect media image.”
The study showed that on “NBC Nightly News,” Obama had 10 times more positive stories than negative stories. “CBS Evening News” was bent toward Obama by seven to one, while ABC News was the least lopsided with four times as many pro-Obama stories as negative.
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The study showed that before the Iowa Caucuses, Obama’s positive to negative story ratio was 30 percent to 6 percent.
After the Iowa victory, ABC’s Charles Gibson asked on air, “How do you run against hope?”
Before Super Tuesday, that shot up to 42 percent to 5 percent. His lowest point came during the Rev. Jeremiah Wright stories, when the positive to negative ratio was 21 percent to 9 percent. In the final month, the ratio was 43 percent to 1 percent.
Here's what we think of McCain
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I believe his is the presumptive nominee, he has not yet secured the nomination
Much as I can’t stand her, her perkiness did a pretty good job interviewing the messiah on his magical mystery tour. As usual, without a prompter Barry turned into a stuttering, stammering cornacopia of word salad when faced with a basic job interview type question like “What is your biggest weakness”.
I really hope Hillary throws a nice little monkey wrench in the Messiah’s plans at the convention. That would be fantastic.
Paging Capt. Renault...
Well No Sh!t
"Look, it's really very simple..." etc., were awesome examples of how insufferable he is.
Hey Nancy, how about looking at your fairness doctorine?
That's a legitimate question - I don't consider it either fawning or positive. And Bambi was running against Hilly at the time.
I wonder when/if these same people will get around to the study regarding media bias and the corresponding death spiral in circulation, ratings and profits?
hope (n.) A wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.
Who’s wish ? The media’s? So the question asked was how do you run against the juggernaut of the msm, where it is the msm’s hope that obama would be king.
Anyone the msm backe has proved to be a worthless person Carter,bill and hill,ect...
You an read it that way if yo like. I don’t. Hope is what Bambi is selling. It’s his message. How do you run against that message? Legitimate question.
Answer - hope is an empty vessel. Show that. Hilly didn’t.
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